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足以

zú yǐ

Old HSK 6 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word

足以 (zú yǐ) means "sufficient to...". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 6 in the old six-level list.

What 足以 means

1. sufficient to...
2. so much so that
3. so that

The characters in 足以

• 足zú(bound form) foot; leg; sufficient; ample; as much as; fully
• 以yǐto use; by means of; according to

Example sentences

• 天冷得足以让湖结冰。
  Tiān lěng de zúyǐ ràng hú jiébīng.
  The weather was so cold that the lake froze over.
• 亨利年纪够大足以养活自己。
  Hēnglì niánjì gòu Dàzú yǐ yǎnghuo zìjǐ.
  Henry is old enough to support himself.
• 冰厚得足以让我在上面走路。
  The ice was thick enough for me to walk on.
• 我们软弱的反对派不足以阻止他。
  Our feckless opposition party didn't do enough to stop him.
• 其实我工作并不多，但足以让我这周在办公室里忙着了。
  Qíshí wǒ gōngzuò bìngbù duō, dàn zúyǐ ràng wǒ zhè zhōu zài bàngōngshì lǐ mángzhe le.
  I don't have a lot of work, but it's enough to keep me in the office this week.
• 如果我们在棋盘的第一个格子里放一粒麦子，在第二个格子里放两粒麦子，在第三个格子里放四粒麦子，以此类推，直到最后一个格子，那么总共会有 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 粒麦子，足以堆成喜马拉雅山的 100 倍高。
  If we were to put a grain of wheat on the first box of a chessboard, two grains on the second one, four on the third one and so on, until the last one, there would be 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains, enough to make a mountain 100 times taller than the Himalayas.

Where 足以 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of HSK 6 Vocabulary · zhuó–zú (HSK 6), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 6 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read zú yǐ correctly.
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